Hat-brim-ironing machine



(No Model.)

W. J. MoGALL. HAT BRIM IRONING MACHINE.

No. 483,746. Patented Oct. 4, 1892.

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I UNITED STATES;

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. MOGALL, OF WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

HAT-BRlM-IRONING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,746, dated October4, 1892.

Application filed February 11, 1892. Serial No. 421,086. (No model.)

had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of hatbri1n-ironing machinesrepresented by the one described in a oo-ordinate application filedSeptember 23, 1891, in the United States Patent Office, Serial N o.406,5at0, in which a disklike rotary iron suitably heatedby gas or othermeans co-operated with a rotary block centrally disposed over said diskand revolv ing at a slower rate of speed and with a hand- 1ron, alsoheated, to iron out the hat-brim. The object of the present improvementsis to provide other means for accomplishing the advantageous resultsreferred to in the said co-ordinate application and to secure otheradvantages and results, some of which will be referred to in connectionwith the description of the working parts.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicatecorresponding parts in both of the views, Figure 1 is a side View, andFig. 2 is a front view, of a machine embodying my improvements.

In said drawings, (it indicates a suitable frame providing bearings forthe working parts.

I) is a rotary ironing-disk adapted to be heated in any ordinary manner.The said disk is carried by a shaft 0, to which power is imparted bygearing d, d, e, and for other appropriate means. Above saidironing-disk is shaft.

in its bearings, or a movement toward and from the ironing-disk, andcarries a blockgrasping clamp or hand 70, adapted to engage thehat-block or the hat arranged on said hatblock and cause the same torevolve therewith. At the upper end of said shaft is a suitable clutch,one section at of which is on the shaft and the other 0 on thegear-wheel h. By simply raising the shaft out of engagement with thegear-wheel its rotary movement is Stopped, and by a reverse movement therotation of the shaft is begun. The shaft is provided with a suitablecatch Z to co-operate With another catch on on the frame of the machine,by which the said shaft and its clamp or hand are held in their elevatedpositions or away from a position to engage the hat-block. Said clamp orhand consists of an elastic and concavous device adapted to fit over thebody of the hat and the hat-block, as indicated in the figures of thedrawings. It is preferably of india-rubber, though it may be of anyother spring material, and is coupled to the rotary shaft 9, so as torevolve therewith and impart rotary motion to the hat andhat-blockstationed at the center of the rotary disk.

The hat-block is independent of the ironingdisk and rotary clamp andsimply rests on said disk, being free to move independent of said diskunder the power of said clamp. Any suitable means may be employed tooperate the vertically-movable shaft from and to engagement with thecatch, either mechanical means or the hand of the operator.

In operating the device, motion being given to the disk and cog-wheel hand the elastic clamp being in its elevated position free of the hat andhat-block, the hat is placed on said hat-block and the two are disposedcentrally upon the ironing-disk, the brim of the hat being laid outhorizontally upon the latter. The clamp is then lowered and snuglycaught upon the hat body and block by fric tional contact, and theclutch parts are at the same time brought into operative engagement, sothat rotary motion is imparted to the vertical shaft, the hat and hat-block clamp, and said hat and hat-block, and thus the rim is caused torevolve on the ironingdisk, but at a speed less than that of saiddisk.

By employing an ordinary heated handiron on the top of the brim thelatter is ironed out smooth and without wrinkles.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. Thecombination, with a rotary ironingdisk, of a hat-block and a rotaryconcave clamp arranged above said disk and adapted to grasp the hat-bodyupon the said hat-block and cause the same to revolve upon theironing-disk, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a rotary ironingdisk, of a rotary shaftarranged above the center of said disk, a clamp to engage the hat-blockand secured to said shaft to revolve therewith and movable to and fromthe said disk, and a hatblock adapted to receive the February, 1892.

WILLIAM J. MoGALL. Witnesses:

CHARLES H. FELL,- OSCAR A. MICHEL.

